Lately I’ve been in the market for a new purse. Posts like that were only one example of "doom spending" — a concept of spending more money when we feel anxious. Also, if life blows up even when you’ve been following the rules, it can feel like there’s no reason to “be good.” “It shakes our trust in future rewards …
It looks as if Keir Starmer realised that he had overdone the doom and gloom in the weekend briefing about the Conservatives leaving the country in “rubble and ruin”. He then recited a familiar list from the election campaign of things that the government “will” do, at a stratospheric level of generality – planning reform, nationalising railways, levelling up workers’ …
After days of morning to mid-afternoon gloom, Memorial Day bloomed bright and early over Los Angeles — the clouds blown away, no doubt, by the powerful current of sighs, groans and complaints generated by the weekend’s disappointing box office. I don’t know what bean-counting genius thought that “The Fall Guy,” a sweet if highly energetic rom-com based on a mildly …
